and training the workforce to do our jobs.

I was in manufacturing all my left. In the 70's my dad got me a job in QC at the plant in the toown where we lived. After college, I worked in a bunch of manufacturing companies. I became a buyer of industrial products for a machine tool manufacturer in the early 80's. Among the stuff I bought were large DC electric motors from GE/Lynn, MA. One day, I placed orders for motors with the sales guy who told me that leadtimes went fom 4 weeks to24 weeks. When I got back in my chair, I asked why? Because Jack Welch's GE team were moving production to Mexico to say costs and make stockholders happy. I remember thinking, what happens when all manufacturer's move out of the US? Who will have the money to buy the products?

We are living that reality now. Think about the institutional manufacturing knowledge that we no longer have....it is way more serious than you can imagine.

since that's the root cause of the problem, replacing employees with contractors. Americans don't want to be contractors, moving apartments to a new city every few months without any reimbursement. Being separated from family or friends, never being able to own a home, always being easily disposable. It's a rough life that Americans just won't do, and shouldn't have to.

People who are stuck on the foreign aspect of it are missing the point of why companies do it. They want disposable temporary labor, not long term employees.

just to see what it's like. Indulge in a healthy liberal curiosity.